Atchison, KS, USA
Object appeared to be at extremely high altitude moving from north to south without sound and at 2500+ mph. I could see it moving south
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-19
- Where
- Atchison, KS, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 39.563, -95.122 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-atchison-ks-2017-1f516f
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Atchison, KS has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 51 reports from Kansas.
Report
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